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As a man growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, Robert Morgan was a fast-driving get together boy-a hell-raiser. But when his mother determined suicide after learning she acquired inoperable brain tumors, Morgan's life transformed greatly. He was no longer a carefree playboy; he was a man searching for meaning.
He discovered that meaning at the control buttons of an aircraft, and in the flak-and fighter-filled skies over Occupied France and Nazi Germany. The aircraft was a Boeing B-17 Soaring Fortress. Morgan known as her the Memphis Belle honoring his fiancée, a Memphis beauty known as Margaret Polk. He and his team flew 25 successful daylight missions over Europe in the Belle, and were immortalized by Hollywood director William Wyler in a 1944 documentary called The Memphis Belle. In those 25 harrowing missions, Morgan never lost a team member. The only casualty associated with the Belle was Morgan's engagement to the plane's namesake; it simply couldn't survive the Warfare Department's publicity demands.
A robust chronicle of commitment, love, and amazing bravery, The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle takes you into the heart of the battle above 20,000 feet, and into the unforgettable life of one of America's most significant World Warfare II heroes.
He discovered that meaning at the control buttons of an aircraft, and in the flak-and fighter-filled skies over Occupied France and Nazi Germany. The aircraft was a Boeing B-17 Soaring Fortress. Morgan known as her the Memphis Belle honoring his fiancée, a Memphis beauty known as Margaret Polk. He and his team flew 25 successful daylight missions over Europe in the Belle, and were immortalized by Hollywood director William Wyler in a 1944 documentary called The Memphis Belle. In those 25 harrowing missions, Morgan never lost a team member. The only casualty associated with the Belle was Morgan's engagement to the plane's namesake; it simply couldn't survive the Warfare Department's publicity demands.
A robust chronicle of commitment, love, and amazing bravery, The Man Who Flew the Memphis Belle takes you into the heart of the battle above 20,000 feet, and into the unforgettable life of one of America's most significant World Warfare II heroes.
